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State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long today released the line-up for his 44th annual Political Action Conference, which will draw Republicans and cosnervatives from across New York to the Holiday Inn on Wolf Road.

The conference, which Long said has more people registered than ever before, will kick off Sunday at 12:30 p.m. More information is available here.

E. J. McMahon is scheduled to speak about the budget. NYC Councilman Eric Ulrich, a Queens Republican, will discuss term limits. Sheriff Adrian “Butch” Anderson will address law enforcement and newly-elected GOP senators Lee Zeldin (Long Island) and Pat Gallivan (Buffalo) will be on a panel with Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (Melrose).

All of the newly elected Republican House members will abe on a panel to discuss their plans to change Washington.

On Monday, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a GOP rising star who ousted Democratic veteran Andy Spano in 2009, will speak along with Andy Sullivan, described as a “hard hat survivor of 9/11 and Ground Zero Mosque opponent.”

After the chairman’s preferred gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Rick Lazio, lost to Carl Paladino in last September’s GOP primary, the Conservatives got behind the Buffalo businessman, who went on to win enough votes on their line to boost them to Row C on the ballot.

In addition, the Conservatives’ message of fiscal discipline is very popular of late – so much so that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo is starting to sound awfully like he might need to check his registration. Long is such a big fan that he has launched a robocall campaign calling on state lawmakers, particularly “liberal” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, to support the governor’s agenda.

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